Biohydrogen Production by Catalytic Supercritical Water Gasification: A Comparative Study

Abstract

catalyst, the catalyst got deactivated because of the high phenol and furan content in the corn husk biocrude, therefore hydrogen yield performance fell significantly. It was observed that the carbon gasification efficiency of the biocrude was independent of temperature. In terms of carbon conversion, the equilibrium conditions for the biocrude considered were attained at lower temperature. A mechanistic model based on the Eley-Rideal method was devised and tested against the obtained data. The dissociation of adsorbed oxygenated hydrocarbon is found to be the rate-determining step with an average absolute deviation of 3.55%.

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